[llvm-dev] BoF: Shipping Software as LLVM IR (@Upcoming Dev Mtg)

[Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev]

Hi,

I think as soon as you want to have long-lived IR, the bitcode serialization is a corner stone piece of the system. 
Somehow related, I posted this recently to llvm-dev: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-September/105273.html <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-September/105273.html> ; I’d be interested how we could leverage a better serialization for various use-cases!

Best,

— 
Mehdi


> On Oct 14, 2016, at 11:32 AM, Will Dietz via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi LLVM’ers!
> 
> We are hosting a BoF at this year's Dev Meeting on a subject we hope will be of interest to some (many?) of you:
> shipping software (entirely) as LLVM IR.
> 
> You can find our proposal in the meeting schedule online:
> 
> https://llvmdevelopersmeetingbay2016.sched.org/event/8Yzq/shipping-software-as-llvm-ir <https://llvmdevelopersmeetingbay2016.sched.org/event/8Yzq/shipping-software-as-llvm-ir>
> 
> The BoF is scheduled to last 45 minutes, which will go by very quickly!
> To make the best use of the time, we'd like to get a head-start on some of the discussions,
> and get a feel for what topics people are most interested in discussing.
> To start things off, here are a few suggestions for things to discuss.
> Thoughts -- and suggestions for additional topics -- welcome.
> 
> * Do you ship software as IR today? What lessons have you learned?
> * Challenges of shipping software as IR
> * Representing software: Beyond a single module
> * From build systems to LLVM IR: toolchains and more
> * What would you do with a platform where everything was available as LLVM IR?
> * What tools or infrastructure would help make that happen?
> 
> (Some background to explain why we’re interested in this topic.)
> ALLVM: We have a project in our group exploring the benefits of shipping
> *all* software on a system as IR.  We are building a prototype ALLVM system
> that makes it relatively easy to package and ship software in this way.
> We are researching the benefits this could provide for performance and
> for general software development.  We aim to make the ALLVM prototype
> available in open source form to enable other groups to explore these goals.
> Contact us off-list if you’d like to learn more about the ALLVM project.
> 
> ~Will (and Vikram)
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